A Day at the Beach

The vacation saga continues....

On Monday last week, we decided to venture to the beach. Of course, I never thought about having to drive over a bridge to get there. So below is a pic of the bridge that we drove over! Yikes!!! I hate bridges! Especially really high and long ones! I'm not a big fan of North Carolina because of my fear of bridges! It feels like there's a bridge about every 20 miles. I sucked it up and tried not to whine too much. :( Here's Jason & Gibson walking down the boardwalk to the beach!
Gibson hated the sand! He didn't like it getting on his feet which was pretty much impossible to prevent. You could put him down in the sand and he would stay in one spot the entire time. We've decided to take a box of sand everywhere we go to put Gibson in so we don't have to worry about him running off. :)

Here's Nana trying to convince Gibson to get down in the sand.
Family picture of us at the beach
Playing at the beach
He was in awe of the water! He thought it was funny that the waves came up, hit the beach and then disappeared.
Nana cleaning the sand off poor little Gibson's feet!
Gibson wearing Nana's shades!
Can you tell I played in the sand?

Jason & Gibson admiring the water!
We finally got him to walk with Jason down the beach! He laughed like crazy when the waves hit his feet. But if they got much higher than that, he started to panic. He's finished walking...now he wants his shoes so the sand doesn't touch his feet!
After a long day of playing at the beach, he was out for the count! Poor baby barely made it to the bed!

To be continued...at the battleship!

Bass Pro Shop, Airplanes and Shuffleboard

WE'RE HOME!!!! Thank the Lord! I had soooo much fun while on vacation in North Carolina but I was so happy to be home. We discovered that vacation is a lot of work with a 2 year old in tow. :) I will have to update you with several blogs over several days otherwise I'll be here all day. I'll also spare you most of the pics (I took over 300 this past week). Here we go!

We drove to Dallas Saturday to spend the night because our flight was at 6:30am on Sunday morning. We stopped by Bass Pro Shop while we waited to check in to the hotel.

Here's Jason & Gibson by the pow (aka...cow).

Gibson was not a fan of the shark. We sat him down in front of it to take his picture and he started scooting away as fast as he could. It's a good thing I'm such a professional photographer and was quick enough to make sure he was in the picture. :)

Gibson wasn't a fan of the fish either! I'm not sure why because he usually likes them. Maybe it was because most of the fish were as big as he is!

Finally, Gibson did like the ducks! Yeah!!

Jason had a gig in Deep Elum Saturday night so Gibson and I hung out in the hotel room. Which basically consisted of me chasing Gibson around making sure he didn't destroy everything. He thought everything in the room was made for him to touch. But he went to bed very easy (which surprised me) and cooperated very well.

Gibson and me playing on the bed in the hotel.

So, bright & early Sunday morning, we're up and at 'em! Jason and I were up at 4:00 to make sure we had everything ready to leave at 5:00. Gibson was lucky enough to sleep until 4:30am. We made it to the airport in plenty of time to get through security (which was an act of congress) and eat breakfast before our flight.

Here is Gibson before we boarded the plane. He looks much better than Jason and I did at 5:00 in the morning. (He wore his Curious George airplane shirt just for the occasion.)
Did I mention that this was the first flight for any of us? Yes I know, until now I've lived in the stone ages. I wasn't really that nervous about flying. I was more nervous about how Gibson was going to do. But he never acted any different than he does if he's riding in the car. He never even whimpered. He did soooooo good! I was very relieved. Actually, none of us never really got sick. I just felt really disoriented the entire first flight. We had a 40 minute layover in Memphis and then a 2 hour flight to Raleigh. The second flight was much better than the first with the exception of the landing. Thank God the brakes worked on the plane! Here's the only picture that I got on the plane. Sorry but the rest of the time I was too busy trying to entertain Gibson and trying not to puke. :)
Finally, we landed in Raleigh and then drove a couple of hours to Jacksonville to Nana & Poppy's house (Jason's mom and step-dad). There we confiscated the neighbor's see-saw. She didn't mind though. Gibson had a ball. He played outside until it was dark. I guess all that energy had built up through 2 plane rides and a 2 hour car ride.

We also stole a car! Gibson liked the car a lot. Although we kept having to convince him he wasn't Fred Flintstone because he liked using his feet for brakes.

Eventually, Gibson's grand theft auto turned into Gibson Shuffleboard. (Don't be alarmed...we were in the street but on a cul-de-sac, under adult supervision and we normally don't let Gibson play in the street.) The faster we pushed him the happier he was.

By the end of the day, Gibson was exhausted! He slept like a baby!

Stay tuned for the beach!!

Peek-a-Boo, Band Practice, Chocolate & Bed Time

OK....so I'm not so good at keeping this blog updated. I seriously have good intentions but I never take the time to update it as often as I need to. I was going to post a week or so ago but realized I hadn't taken any pictures in a while so there wasn't much to post. So, I've been busy taking snap shots around the house of Gibson being Gibson.

Gibson playing peek-a-boo with the camera!

Looking quite determined
Tonight I got home from work and found Gibson "practicing" with Jason, Russell and Kent. He was strumming along, trying to put the capoe on the guitar and even tried to sing harmony a time or two.
What?!?
As a snack, I temporarily lost my mind and gave Gibson a bite size Three Musketeers candy bar. It was such a tiny piece of candy. Who would have thought he could have somehow managed to get every piece of chocolate off the candy bar and on to him?!?
"MINE!!! This is my candy! Quit eyeballing my candy!"

"OK, since you won't quit staring at my candy, I'm just going to shove the entire thing in my mouth so I know you won't want it then. Ha! Ha!"

Gibson tucked Elmo in bed at some point today. This is what I found when I was getting Gibson ready for bed tonight.

Obviously, Gibson hasn't heard about not putting babies to sleep on their bellies! Poor Elmo!

Sleeping like a baby!

We're visiting family in a few days so I should have lots more pics then! I'll try and not take a month to post them! :)